THE JEWISH WORLD PLAGUE

By Hermann Esser
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Background: Hermann Esser was one Hitlers early followers, and second perhaps
only to Julius Streicher in crude Jew-baiting. The opening chapter of his 1939 book The
Jewish World Plague gives a good example of his style. He finished this edition of the
book in January 1939, two months after the anti-Semitic violence of 9 November 1938.
Esser feels no sympathy. He suggests the Jews only got what they deserved. The rest of
the book continues along similar lines. This is tough material to translate in a way that
conveys the style of the original. The book was first published before 1933.
The source: Hermann Esser, Die jdische Weltpest (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP,
1939), pp. 9-12.
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1. FUNDAMENTALS OF THE JEWISH QUESTION

The treacherous murder of the young German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the office of
the German embassy in Paris on 7 November 1938 by a 17-year-old Jew named
Herschel Grnspan is rightly viewed by the entire German people as a contemptible
sneaky attack on Adolf Hitlers new Greater Germany. Eighty million people were
touched in the depth of their being; justified outrage erupted. According to their own
figures, the Jews, who had been living very well among the German people for
centuries, were worth a total of 8 billion marks. When the Reich government required
them to pay a penalty of a billion marks, the Jewish-democratic world press howled as if
Jews in National Socialist Germany were starving and going to the dogs.
Each German reads with fury what foreign journalists, paid by and working for Jewish
money, write about Germanys domestic affairs.
Still, one is surprised that even today one occasionally finds citizens who feel sorry
about the money the Jews had to pay and who in their pubs or family conversations
speak about the poor Jews. These attitudes prove that, despite constant National
Socialist education about the Jewish world plague, there remains much to be done,
particularly among the intellectuals.
The knowledge of the Jew must be brought to every attic and every corner of Greater
Germany, the knowledge that the Jew was a world plague from the beginning,
remained so for millennia, and will forever remain one.
Each Jew individually, and Jewry as a whole, is without a home. Jewry undermines every
people and every state that it infiltrates. It feeds as a parasite and a culture-killing
worm in the host people. It grows and grows like weeds in the state, the community,
and the family and infests the blood of humanity everywhere.
In brief, that is the pestilential nature of Jewry, against which every people, every state,
every nation must, should, and wants to defend itself if it does not want to be the
victim of this bloody plague.
Wherever Jewry has appeared, it has never built anything. It has always and
everywhere destroyed or torn down, sucking others dry to fill itself. From the days of
the Romans to our day, Jewry in every century, in every people, was and remained a
foreign body, a destroyer of real and ideal values, a denier of any upward progress, a
plague for body and soul. It sneaks in through deceit and treachery, trickery and
slyness, murder and assault, understanding how to establish itself.
Throughout history the poets and philosophers, the leaders of industry and science, the
leading lights of art and culture, statesmen and economists whose blood was not
infected by the Jews, have warned against the Jew in every century. They proclaimed
openly and clearly what he is: the plague. From Tacitus to Schopenauer, from Giordano
Bruno to Mommsen and Treitscke, the intellectual heroes of every age have called the
Jew the demon of decay, the ferment of decomposition, as the misfortune of the
peoples or of humanity. In the New Testament, the Jews were in Christs words the
sons of the Devil.

Jewry is the embodiment of materialism, the epitome of sensuality, of greed, of

dishonesty, of selfishness, of heartlessness, and the lust for power.
Over the centuries, Jewry has infiltrated every nation and every people, committing
with crime after crime. Today it is on top, tomorrow at the bottom, without honor or a
sense of honor. It has but one thing: a greedy lust for possession and power, for fame,
for suppressing and enslaving the surrounding world. The cultured peoples, both today
and in the past, create and build, proving their worth as the creators and advancers of
culture. Jewry was and remains only the corrupter and destroyer of culture. Everything
healthy and great is rooted only in the national. The foundation of a state and the
fundamentals of a culture can only be national. Jewry can never be great, can never
create culture, for it is not a people, but rather only a corrupt mixture of inferior desert
tribes with no national life or longing, with no proud and famous past. Jewry has always
lived from day to day, not from labor but amassing earthy treasures as its first goal.
Even Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob received this revelation upon leaving Egypt:
I shall lead you to the land of your fathers and give you large and beautiful
cities that you did not build, and houses full of things that you did not gather,
and fallen trees that you did not cut, vineyards and olive groves that you did not
plant, and you will eat and be satisfied (Deuteronomy 6:10ff.)
Just as the Jews conquered their Promised Land, so it has been with the Jews over the
years down to this very day. They come as foreigners, as beggars, slinking and
groveling, with false humility and dishonest respect. Once they have swindled their way
to something, they become thieves and bloodsuckers, either openly or in secret. They
turn into thieving and murderous Bolshevist hordes for their host peoples. That
happens everywhere.
Jewry has shown itself to be the thief of the material possessions of the host peoples,
as a destroyer of culture and as a parasite everywhere and in every way from the dim
past through the present day. The double face of Judah grins through the millennia.
The Jew bewitches and exploits the gullible, the ignorant, the trusting. He reserves for
himself all the advantages of Mammon and capitalism, wealth and treasures, all the
joys and pleasures of life. Yet for 3,000 years the Jew has complained about oppression
and persecution, about hatred and prejudice against him. But the Jewry has gathered
and swindled the worlds money. The Jews are so oppressed and enslaved that around
17 million of them have gathered about 200 billion marks.
One can hardly speak and write about poor Jews.
The history of every age and nation proves, page by page and chapter by chapter, that
Jewry always and everywhere has been a homeless racial mish-mash, a world plague. It
has remained a world plague to this day and will remain a world plague for all eternity.
That is its chosenness from all the peoples of the earth, a chosenness of
destructive pestilence for the world and for mankind.
Fuente:
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/esser.htm

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